by Justin Marple | Jun 27, 2010 | Revelation Commentary, TEACHING
Next we find the seven symbolic histories (Revelation 12-14). Here follows the most confusing parts of the entire word-vision book. It is not even easy to know when it begins or ends or how to outline it. The account may begin with the ending of the previous...
by Justin Marple | Jun 24, 2010 | Revelation Commentary, TEACHING
Jericho was a fortified city in the land of Canaan. YHWH told Joshua to march around the city once for six days with priests walking before the ark carrying seven trumpets of rams’ horns. On the seventh day they were to march around seven times and blow the...
by Justin Marple | May 23, 2010 | Revelation Commentary, TEACHING
Revelation 4 begins the second vision “in the Spirit.” This is the vision in heaven. The first two verses are laden with import. The first verse opens and closes (an inclusio) with the eschatological phrase “after this.” The first...
by Justin Marple | May 12, 2010 | Revelation Commentary, TEACHING
Continuing with additional observations since the last post…let the one who has ears, hear. G.K. Beale suggests that we can understand the first letter by looking at Matthew 24:12-14. Actually, back up a verse: “And many false prophets will arise and lead...
by Justin Marple | May 3, 2010 | Canon Commentary, COMMUNITY, Monthly Newsletters, Revelation Commentary
People have been asking me to teach on Revelation for more than five years and I have always avoided doing so until now. John Calvin, the great Reformer, wrote wise and perceptive commentaries on almost every book of the Bible. But he never wrote a commentary on...
by Justin Marple | Apr 25, 2010 | Revelation Commentary, TEACHING
Here we find the letters to the seven churches and thus to the complete (symbolism of the number 7) church. This is the second half of the vision of Christ. Instead of continuing to mark new paragraphs with “I heard” or “I saw,” now a new...
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